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A judge in North Carolina in 2012 has once again confirmed that race plays an integral role in our capital punishment system. Judge Gregory Weeks found intentional discrimination by Cumberland County prosecutors against African-American potential jurors in the cases of three capital defendants, Tilmon Golphin, Christina Walters, and Quintel Augustine. He sentenced all three defendants to life without parole under North Carolina's historic Racial Justice Act. The decision is currently on appeal.

Whether Florida’s death penalty scheme violates the Constitution by allowing the judge, rather than a jury, to make critical factfinding determinations.

An innocent man is dying of terminal liver cancer on Texas's Death Row.

The ÌÒ×ÓÊÓƵ represented Robert Ladd, an intellectually disabled man with an IQ of 67, who faced execution in Texas. The ÌÒ×ÓÊÓƵpetitioned the Supreme Court for a stay of Robert Ladd's execution and to review the initial decision of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Ladd was executed by the state of Texas at 7:02 pm CT on Thursday, January 29, 2015.